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Andy Warhol’s commentary on the discussion about the execution of the death penalty in the US via the electric chair. Warhol chose the electric chair as a motif for some paintings and prints that he conceived in multiple variations first in 1963 as part of his ‘Death in America’ series. The last electric chair execution actually took place on August 15, 1963, at the penitentiary Sing Sing outside New York, where Warhol had taken the photograph of his electric chair in an empty room with a table from. Contemporary witnesses reflect on the public reaction towards Warhol’s bright pop art images of the delicate subject, as in David Bourdon e.g. described the ‘Electric Chair’ series as ‘perverse confrontation’.
Condition:
The serigraph in colors is besides minimally bumped corners and centrally slightly soiled handling creases in very good condition. The dimensions of the sheet are 90.2 x 121.9 cm, while the overall dimensions including the frame mount up to 125.5 x 90 cm.
Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
Andy Warhol, founder and leading figure of the American Pop art, was born in 1928 as a son of a Russian family in Pittsburgh. He began his artistic career by creating advertising graphics. In 1956, he presented his first graphic works at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In the early 1960s, Warhol began experimenting with different techniques and started focusing on typical American objects of the consumer society, as for example Campbell’s soup cans or Coca Cola bottles. In 1962, Warhol started with his series of portraits of famous stars, such as Marilyn Monroe or Elvis Presley, who were then at the height of their career. His well-known studio ‘The Factory’ was a meeting point for internationally successful artists, actors and musicians. As early as the 1970s, galleries started exhibiting Warhol’s work, which is now part of some of the most famous collections, including the Modern Museum of Art in New York, the Tate Modern in London and the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris. (tm)
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